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Rand Paul: “If you throw more money at Medicaid now and you do not have rules on prescribing or you do not have significant changes…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2018
If you throw more money at Medicaid now and you do not have rules on prescribing or you do not have significant changes on prescribing, you are going to get more of the problem.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Senator Paul warns that increased funding without regulation will worsen opioid issues.

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